New research from the University of Minnesota upends long-held understanding about how wolves, bears and cougars—three of ...

Meta-analysis reveals there is no evidence that variation in clutch size in birds is driven by the reproduction–survival trade-off.

"It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice." Meet Andromeda XXXV Dwarf galaxies themselves are nothing new to scientists.

one bird to one cow, and we wouldn’t see that again,” says Peter Halfmann, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Influenza Research Institute. Yet the more severe human cases ...

“It’s primarily transmitted to birds, to birds, but in recent cases, there has been transmission through to humans and to animals as well,” said Amanda Leonard. Bon Secours nurse ...

The finding of the new strain came as researchers separately reported a potentially positive development: Exposure to human seasonal flu may confer some immunity to H5N1 bird flu. The new strain ...

Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems might be primed to fend... If bird flu jumps to humans, immunity from ...

For example, Cobey's study measured antibodies that bind to a particular part of a protein that covers the surface of seasonal flu virus in humans and bird flu. Hemagglutinin, or the HA protein ...